Haha thanks so much, I don't have any subs as I don't make enough videos, I think once a year will be my schedule and never the same topic I think ! :D Thanks again, have a good day !
Honestly cried at the parallels to my own life and music journey, not to mention this is one of my most favorite songs ever. Criminally underrated channel, subbed!
Haha thanks a lot for your comment ! No need to get more views, I won't upload enough ! You've said parallels with your life : You tried playing the song and plays it now or are you still in the process ?? Have a good day !
I was SHOCKED to see this video's views and your subscribers. I just randomly clicked on this recommendation. My guy, you are CRIMINALLY underrated. Please keep it up, you're amazing.
Hahaha your comment made my day lol I get what I deserve, all the comments are absolutely amazing and kind ! Anyway I don't produce enough content to answer the demands of the viewer :D If you're interested please have a look at my 2 last videos ! It's quite different, nothing to do with this one :)
listening to you finally play those who fight made me cry. it's the piece that inspired me to play piano in the first place. now, over ten years later, im struggling through one winged angel from the piano collections. your journey inspires me to continue my own!
Thank you so much for your comment ! I hope you still love playing by now ! One winged angel sounds really hard, wish you all the strenght to keep working on it !! Thanks again :)
Now that you know "Those Who Fight" you're ready for the final boss, "Those Who Fight Further". And then years later you can start on the SECRET final boss, "Dancing Mad" (I myself am 75% through it) Bravissimo, friend!
Thanks so much for your kind words friend ! I have looked at Dancing Mad, I have to say that it's a fight I'm not willing to take for the next 15 years ! :D Congrats on your advancement !
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures Thank you got your response friend! As a small tip, the Piano Collections versions of these Uematsu pieces are often very difficult compared to the original arrangements. The original piece, Dancing Mad is more than difficult enough lol. The Piano Collections version is just insanity. But I respect that you really went for it on "Those Who Fight"! Cheers to your immense progress.
Well done man, I’m no piano player but I love the Final Fantasy series and Those Who Fight is an iconic and nostalgic piece for a lot of fans. It came out amazingly and your dedication is truly inspiring. All the best for the future :) Josh
I'm over here screaming and cheering! great playing man. I've seen a lot of people cover this song. You're up there with some of the best in my opinion.
It is easy to look at someone doing something well (or not so well) and underestimate how much hard work it took for them to get there. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Happy for you and proud of you. I am inspired.
Thank you so much for your kind words ! Exactly, that's THE reason why I wanted to do this video : I often felt bad seeing pianists on RU-vid because it seemed so easy for them and so hard for me. I could've made a video where it feels easy and I just play it like any song, but to me it would've been a lie :) (Also it's easier for me to edit a video like this as it is my daily job, I totally understand pianists who won't take time for this)
This is so nostalgic to me, I can't even explain it complety. I also took classes when I was younger and quit due to other priorities. I also picked it up later again to study on my own and I picked this song as my ultimate challenge. I started about 15 years ago but never finished it (made it about 2/3s through the song). I was bad at sheet music reading, too, my piano skills were not great, so I was even prouder of getting as far as I did. But ultimately I never finished it. I also see the other songs you learned like All of Me (Jon Schmidt), songs from Jan Tierssen, ... that I started to learn. I went to study at an american college, where I played at the music department, too (with little cabines each just having enough space for one piano), during the night. And I do have the same piano at home now, that you have. The only difference seems to be that you made the time and pulled through, while I gave up on playing the piano completely (well job and a family got in the way :P). It's unbelievable to see that someone went through the same kind challenge, with the same kind of struggle. To me this looks a lot like "this is how it could've turned out"! great job, and thanks for sharing! BTW: 6:40 made me smile, as those were the exact thoughts I had back then ... this stupid part broke me
Thank you soooo much for your testimonial, that's the kind of things that makes me love RU-vid ! That's the true spirit of it !!!! Your story is so similar to mine (I don't remember if I said it in the video but I played in small cabins in China too ^^) but you have to remember that this is a video with editing, storytelling, etc. that cannot represent exactly how I went through this. I had a lot of moments on AND off as well (spent 2 months in Haiti where I couldn't play, I almost stopped learning any song for 2 years when I had my daughter) there were a lot of moments where I stuck at a level for YEARS (the most difficult song I played was All of Me from 2012 to 2023 :D). But the only tweak I had in my mind was to have fun learning very small parts of Those who fight. That's when it all changed ! Not looking at any objective, thinking that I'll never learn it so I could just have fun, and note after note it just worked. Can you try again ? If you have 2/3 of the song you're more advanced than me 3 months prior to making the video. If you have the beginning of "All of Me" you have the hardest part as well. Start again to have fun, and bonus : your family will love it ! Hope to know more of your improvements and maybe watch a video from you ? :D
I thoroughly enjoyed watching your process and felt inspired by your story of perseverance and dedication. I've definitely found myself avoiding pieces that I deemed "too difficult" but this made me want to give them a second look so thanks for that.
Thanks a lot for your comment ! You've touch the point, we often avoid the hard pieces because we don't get rewarded quickly... I still have to fight this feeling thought, there's no end to this fight ! :D
Haha yes it is!!!! My solution was to rhythmically play it on my table with the right fingering, then left hand, right hand and finally both (very slowly at first) please tell me how you'll make it!!
Exactly ! It starts with him, always. One song I recently learned from him is called "Portz Goret", have you heard it ? And yes, FF7 is a true fight ! Thanks for your comment !
Thanks a lot ! We all want to play it and it obsesses us ! Have you tried it ? All it takes is years of practice and doing always the same movements over and over again ! Like learning to walk or talk, or learn a new language ! And after some years it comes fluently :)
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures I haven't tried it no, I don't even have a piano. But I still have that feeling that I would like to be able to play it ever since I've heard the song, also about 15 years ago.
Tu es un monstre , et pour plusieurs raisons : 1, merci de nous rappeler que les plus belles choses à accomplir demandent du temps , du découragement , du courage de nouveau (et de pauses !) , de la sueur et beaucoup d’obstination , et qu’il ne faut jamais abandonner ; 2, ta performance est sincèrement incroyable ; 3, le travail de montage/ son/ écriture est tout bonnement parfait et bravo pour l’humanité que tu nous partage et 4, la trame générale est tellement fluide qu’on en oublierait qu’on n’est pas en train de regarder un docu Netflix 😅 Donc merci pour ce voyage dans lequel tu nous emmènes , dans ta vie à travers tes passions et dans cette vidéo à travers les différents passages d’un adolescent à un homme (en passant par la famille), le temps d’une chanson . La morale ? 15 ans pour 5 minutes , ça les vaut ! Bravo
Merci énormément Max !!!! Ton message de touche de ouf, c'est vraiment gentil, surtout venant d'un artiste comme toi ! En effet 15 ans pour 15 minutes ça les vaut de ouf :D
This hardly ever happens, but even 1/4 of the way through the video I just knew I had to comment! Around the same time you listened to the song and practised it first, I was doing the same thing, thousands of km away here in Brazil. Back then I played no piano, but years later I actually started to. I'm still far below even your starting skills there, but who knows, I may play it one day if I dedicate to it. This was very inspiring, not to say the technical aspects of shooting and editing which are on point as well! You deserve all the attention you can get and more. Bravo!
Woah thanks so much for your kind words !!! That's amazing to know we started at the same time ! Yes if you find the time to dedicate to it you can make it for sure. It's quite frustrating, but you have to have fun learning every bar individually, without looking at the whole score, then you'll see progress and less frustration :D Thanks again for your comment, it means a lot !
Thanks a lot !!! Exactly, although I can't say if it works with harder pieces like moonlight sonata 3rd mov. which would be on of the best achievement ! I visited your channel, I love the way you cover music with other musicians !! It's really inspiring !
It’s so inspiring ! Thanks a lot David for this video ❤ It makes me want to learn to play piano ahahah Or more broadly, to excel more in the areas I am passionate about Thanks again This is one of the best videos of someone sharing their learning experience that I have seen in a long time…
You’re inspiring! Your dedication, focus and hard work paid off. The video is awesome (and your english too!). Many challenges taken and well achieved. Congrats and thank you for sharing your experience 😄
This is really inspiring! I had a piano as a kid, it's my favorite instrument, and growing up I spent so many hours listening to midis at 1/8 speed just to learn individual notes, and it felt so rewarding to learn just pieces of my favorite video game songs. I've been wanting to buy another piano or keyboard recently and have had Those Who Fight on repeat in my head, although it's far above my skill level 😅 congratulations on learning such an amazing piece
Then start little by little ! You can find a midi file of it easily I think ! So start with what you can accomplish and have a look at other songs that are more and more challenging, and in a few years you'll make it ! I've always loved playing arpeggios, so I learned mostly songs with it inside, so it helped a lot with this one. Thanks a lot for your comment :)
Inspired me to just keep grinding. Made me realize I have no excuse to not achieve something I think I can’t do. Can’t believe this only has 3k views, swear this deserves at least 4 mill.
Haha thank you so much ! Yes just keep grinding and know you’ll make it one day ! The only excuse can be : « that’s not the time right now », and the day you’ll be pissed off you’ll work on it really hard !
Tu ne peux même pas t'imaginer \ quel point j'ai été fier et heureux pour toi quand tu as joué la dernière mesure à 14:20... Ton montage vidéo est super et inspirant ! Je te félicite, sincèrement, d'avoir persévéré jusqu'au bout !
Wow this is so inspiring! I understand a little bit how you feel. When I was 27 in 2018 I decided for myself that I wanted to learn how to play Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. Except I had never held a guitar in my hands before :) It took me 6 years and many hours of practicing this one and many dozens of others, discovering tons of pedals, amps, differences in pickups and etc to get that Eddie Hazel sound to finally play.... ~1/2 of a Maggot Brain track XD Watching your video about struggling with THOSE WHO FIGHT I seem to have found the strength to give myself another chance to learn to play the problematic parts of the track for me! Thanks!
Thanks so much for your comment ! Your journey is the same as mine, as anyone else, so go for it please ! Then post a video of you making it, so that you'll remember it and will be proud of yourself in 10 years ! Now that you know which part is problematic you can bruteforce it one note at a time, with patience or a timer :D Hope to see an update from you ! (even in a year or two ;) )
Haha thanks a lot Steffen ! I'm not making enough videos to deserve more subs, but if it can give a good time to people watching it, then it's been useful !
Honestly worth the time you sunk into learning that.. well played and great accuracy and energy. .....I hate to tell you this man but there is Still More Fighting xD
Bravo ! Tu m'as vraiment bluffé sans dec. je ne savais pas du tout que tu avais ce skill en piano ! Sinon c'est incroyable cet effet "je joue 2h et je fais de la merde" ... et le lendemain tu rejoues et ça passe du 1er coup et t'es là ... "mais ... pourquoi ?" Ca me l'a fait teeeeeellement souvent à la guitare.
Haha merci Fred ! Et oui c'est complètement dingue ! Par contre ça oblige à "se battre" avec le morceau en galérant tous les jours. Mais c'est là qu'il faut prendre du plaisir dans la galère sinon ça tient pas, et c'est pour ça que j'ai pas réussi à sortir le morceau avant ! (bon et j'avais pas le niveau tout simplement aussi, mais l'un va avec l'autre)
Ça me l'avait fait avec un riff de Children Of Bodom, impossible de le rentrer. Le lendemain, c'est comme si je savais le jouer depuis 10 ans. J'ai bien compris l'importance du travail ces jours là.
That smile at the end really got me! Fantastic effort learning and practising this song for so many hours, editing and filming the whole process and sharing everything with us! I'm really happy I found it, it was inspiring! I will look at the Zelda movie!
Thank you so much for your kind words Björn ! It was a lot of efforts indeed ! But very rewarding in the end. Today I feel really happy to be able to play it when I want to !
I didn't have any knowledge about various versions that existed when I heard it for the first time, so I kept playing this version (or tried to) during all those years ! Thanks for your comment, it means a lot :)
Quelle persévérance ! Bravo c’est incroyable félicitation 👏 j’ai beau vivre en partie de ma musique, je suis encore à des années lumières de jouer un tel morceau au piano, pourtant je l’adore et j’en reverrai ! Big respect, t’es une vrai source de motivation et d’inspiration
Mais c'est trop gentil Alexis !!! Tu es aussi une belle sleeve d'inspiration, je suis tes aventures de loin et j'hallucine à quel point tu évolues !! J'espère que nous pourrons bosser ensemble un jour !
Thanks for your comment ! I hope you'll do so ! I've felt the same for 15 years, but know that I feel the same today for every new piece I start to learn :D
Wow so nice to see a video like this. I learned this song years ago and i feel u 150% on exactly how ridiculously weirdly difficult it is. I didn't get it nearly as polished as you have it here though so amazing job. You've inspired me to revisit it and polish it up. Shouldn't take any more than 2 years? 😂
Thanks a lot for your kind words ! Now it's been more than a year ago and it also needs polishing :D But it comes back very easily ;) You'll make it in days !
Thanks a lot for your comment ! It's hard sometimes to take a step back and be fine with it, but today I feel like it's totally OK, and anyway I'm happy to have taken the time to record it. One day I'll show it to my grandchildren :D
15 years? Wow. I started learning piano knowing at age 41 knowing utterly nothing. 6 months later I can play Final Fantasy 10 intro - to Zanarkand. 2 hours a day for 4 month just learning that piece. Your story is inspiring.
Hi Jeff, Thanks for your comment ! I tried To Zanarkand when I started, but I never finished ! There's a part where left hand does some fast arpeggios and I couldn't play it at this time. I should try again now :) Congratulations on starting playing the piano ! That is inspiring !
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures yes, I actually don't play the fast arpeggios,, some arrangements dont have them and they weren't in the original game version either
Ah, yes, To Zanarkand. As of the time of me typing this, To Zanarkand is for sure the most complex piece of music I can play on piano. I know it's not that complex at all in the grand scheme of piano repertoire, but it must have took me 3 or 4 weeks of translating sheet music bar by bar (I can't really read) to learn all the various parts. Even then, I suspect it's a rather simplified arrangement. (I learned the arrangement found in Selections from Final Fantasy published by Hal Leonard.) I learned it maybe 6 months ago now & it's still my favorite song to bust out, but the learning process was grueling; I think it's scared me off of trying to learn harder pieces. But Those Who Fight is the holy grail of piano songs for me. It's the song I want to be able to play more than any other. I must say that I really enjoyed this video.
@@calciferblack2409 THANK YOU. We share the same journey. Ive gotten quite a bit better and can play drastically smoother now the pedal than when I messaged you first. There’s 100s of “favourite” pieces I want to learn. I’m currently learning Beethovens 7th , 2nd movement on piano. Nobuo Uematsu is like a modern day Beethoven. I love his music.
Greatest piece of piano music, written for our generation to grow up playing. This one for piano guys and Phunkdified for guitar players are what millenials will remember at their deathbed.
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures Your experience is very relatable to me. I got a basic music education between 4 and 9 y.o., almost didn't play for 10 years and then started playing again due to obsession with this piece. Reasonable people like you probably start from something simpler and gradually work their way up to Those Who Fight. I couldn't make myself wait, re-started right from it and later moved on to simpler pieces from piano collections, Chrono Trigger and so on. It was a bit strange, but an enjoyable ride. Although currently I'm too busy and the passion for music in me was gradually phased out by passion for mathematics, I'm so happy that my youth was surrounded by pieces like this. Listening to your video, I couldn't help but jump to the piano and start playing it again - it's still imprinted in fingers and will stay there forever.
I like all those pieces of Final Fantasy, Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu or Yoko Shimomura... they have all some amazing songs. And they all do like poliyrythm 🙄Hope i can learn all these songs i like too 🙈
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures Ahah t'inquiète DD, laisse moi oublier comme ça au pire on oubliera tous les deux, ou au mieux ce sera une belle surprise, même tardive 😁👌 Encore bravo pour cet exploit musical 👏
Amazing job and amazing video. It's a shame you don't want to make more videos (your English is perfect btw), but I understand RU-vid is a very difficult and time-consuming, as you mentioned it took you 2 months to make this video. If this is the last video you make for music, thank you for the inspiration and for telling your story!
Haha thanks a lot for your comment !!! It's not the last one, the next one will take a while too, but it won't be about piano ! Thanks so much for your time :)
Waouh !!! Bravo David par contre moi j'ai reconnu la musique de ff7 au moment des combat je sais pas si tu le dit dans la vidéo ... Moi et l'anglais ça fait 12 . bisous
Wha merci Damien ! Heureux que ça t'ai touché !!!! Je t'avoue que je ne me rappelle pas si j'en ai parlé, mais j'ai mis le nom du jeu en description en effet ^^
vraiment bravo... super agréable à écouter ! Ben y'a plus qu'à se mettre à those who fight further ^^ (clairement un des morceaux qui me ferait presque me mettre à apprendre pour dans 15ans :) )
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures loin de moi l'idée d'imposer quoi que ce soit... (et oui je squatte encore la page pour aller direct à 10:45, c'est vraiment la meilleure interpretation avec celle de Ru's Piano.
@@cedricjavelle3833 Squatte donc !! Merci beaucoup ! En effet j'aime beaucoup son interprétation, qui est assez éloignée du morceau d'origine mais ajoute vraiment quelque chose à chaque partie ! Il y a moins de dissonances et c'est plus épique, j'aimerais bien ajouter ça dans le futur également
Hey thats how i learn as well! I cant read sheet music and have had no formal training, so i just go to youtube and find someone else playing it and just slow it down and find the notes amd study hand positions.
We are so lucky to live in a time where we can learn from people that live on the other side of the planet, without having to interact !! Almost everything can be learned that way today
Not a piano player at all over here. But, just a genuine question, would it, let's say, make the song ever so slightly easier to understand should you have went and heard the original? The original was a midi mash up played on a synthetic keyboard and that may have been why when it got translated to an actual piano score (with a lil remix), the score ended up looking extremely weird. I honestly never thought it was possible to play and have always thought it was played by some app/programme. I'm not a musician in any way but I kinda understand that music is pretty much one of the most beautiful versions of mathematics. *P;S: came back after actually hearing your play at the end! That was so perfect I let out a loud "Yay!" when you ended it!! Bravo man!!! You the man!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Whoah thanks so much for your kind words !! I've had a lot of fun (last year mainly 😂) learning it, and sharing the story and journey meant a lot, as I get to screenshot my life and thought at this particular moment :) So nice comments like yours means a lot ! You are right, at first I didn't understand the score or the song, and heard the original which gave me the overall melody. I then listened to the piano song like a thousand times and learned bit by bit !
Is it a good idea to speak with you in english in order to tell you how I'm feeling proud of you !? Not sure 🤣 Alors je continue dans notre langue natale pour te remercier du modèle de détermination et de persévérance que tu montres. Bisous
Hey, you're playing this with really good clarity. I'd love to hear & see you playing this on an acoustic grand, and that could become the best non-original version on youtube. This keyboard is not doing justice to your skill.
Hey thanks for your comment ! I wanted to do a video like that on a grand ! I'd need a bit more practice, as the key's are completely different. I'd like to add some staging, the song being titled "Those who fight" it'd be great to see a nice fight !
Hi ! Keep it in the back of your head as I did ! Try to learn some very small parts and feel rewarded to do so. Step by step. In the meantime try to go on harder pieces, faster ones, some with arpeggios, some with weird rythms, weird chords. If you don't know it yet, you should get some music reading courses, online should be fine !
wow! incredible. I never learnt piano in the traditional sense. I was in love with the final fantasy games and their music from nobuo uematsu; to the point where I learnt from watching people play on youtube and just copying the keys that they pressed. It became a lot easier when Synthesia came out and I could easily decipher sheet music! This song is at the top of my most want to learn, but as you did, I tried the first couple of bars for a week and gave up assuming its beyond my capability. I've learnt to a certain level of proficiency songs like (final fantasy piano collections) via purifico, to zanarkand, besaid island and Aeriths theme by Nobuou Uematsu (not sure if you are familiar with any). How far beyond difficult is Those who fight? Will I ever make it not having any traditional piano skills? Also I noticed that muscle memory thing you mentioned where I would struggle and then a couple of days without playing my fingers just did the work!
Thanks a lot for your comment ! Actually I did the same 15 years ago when I came back to piano : watching people play on RU-vid. I tried To Zarnakand that way too ! I think rather than wanting to play it fully, try to have fun playing some bars. Start with the easiest ones, and go on to harder ones by playing it very slowly. Learning to read music would help you (even today I need to take time to read it properly, counting every lines to know which note is which so don't be scared) so that you're not to dependent to videos and the way people play it (some people playing it don't play it the way it's been written). I hope to see your version one day ! Keep going !
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures I have not attempted it yet, but I can see it taking a while to learn how to play it. I would love to play as you do someday. Your persistence is admirable, thanks for sharing your experience.
@@anthonyd555 You should try it ! Start as slow as possible, the key is to trick your brain to get pleasure from training and repeating the same parts :) It will all come as a whole in months, but don't focus on it ! I'd like to take time to use the same process for a new song, but it takes some time to do so ! Thanks a lot for the kind words, wish you success in your next piano song.
also, your rendition is very clean, I loved it. Bravo man. About the "work for 2 hours and making no progress, but not playing makes it better", my personal opinion is our brain gets BORED. Bored out of its mind. My best shot at any piece is between 2~4th time. Afterwards, my brain is like "meh, I don't *care* anymore if you succeed or not" and that's very frustrating as in my heart or whatever you want to call it, I'm still determined and very motivated. Like, no one is forcing me to do this lol So yes, the best way if you feel it's getting worse as you play it is to play a bigger part, switch to another song before coming back to it or let it rest and pick it up later. I feel the brain process the part I'm struggling on with a mix of fresh input and muscle memory. You tell me if whichever works for you. And thank you for your video, you're awesome man.
@@KeydestinyVII Exactly ! With more hindsight I feel like the brain is a bunch of muscles inside your skull. Try making the same exercise on your biceps over and over again, it gets pumped and you can't hold your hand high ! Same for any muscle, so the brain in my opinion. What worked the best to me is to really divide the score, I found out that I "stick" or "glue" memories to the part I play : Kind of a mnemonic to remember every piece, and note after note adding more to it. There is always a moment when I feel like I wan't to stop cause I'm bored, that's when I use a timer with 10-15 minutes. It gives me an objective and because I know it will stop soon I feel like I must practice. Often I'll go over the timer. Thank you very much for your kind words !
Hi, thanks for your comment ! If you can't play at all keep it as one objective in the future ! But start with very easy ones and go from there. There's no magical way but work and dedication :) If you can find fun in work and dedication, then the only question is "when" and not "if" :D
I can say that you are now one of the best on youtube at playing this one - only surpassed by professional pianists, which is very normal. Congratulations on an extremely substantial accomplishment!
